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• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  MIT uses a holistic admissions process, so test scores are just one factor among many for evaluating your preparedness for MIT. Test scores are ... , grades, and other examinations. Test scores are not the single factor that
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  perfectionism by now. MIT has forced me to become much more comfortable with ... ....answer some questions posed by the Daily Blog Prompt bot. Tell us about your ... though we were all terrible at it. It's fun playing ball sports with rowers

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by ... chairs, broken only by two sets of stairs. As you go down toward the front ... absolutely no assumptions. But judging by what's being projected on the massive

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a ... wear a suit or ball gown or anything like that. The interviewers won ... interested in your grades, test scores, etc. They want to learn about you as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  from blue ball that sit on desk. Little man climb out of bed and put on ... : suicide, self-harm, violence, death. Webcomic by Jason Shiga, making him the ... ). A classic by David Foster Wallace, yes, that David Foster Wallace. A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  originals (directed evolution). This kinda simulates evolution by just ... started by using UniProt, an online protein database, and searched the ... structures in the end. This is a typical time vs accuracy tradeoff (I as one

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay so many times that, by submission time, it did not even make sense ... correctly used: your vs you’re, they’re vs there vs their, it’s vs its, effects vs affects, etc; (3) you did not apply “that” to living beings (“She

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... vs. Honolulu: [carousel image1="116460" image2="116461" /] As you can ... that MIT is hard, and then everyone is sad when MIT is, in fact, hard. By

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  zones away, I had to throw myself out of bed by 6:45 am. But on the plus ... companies founded by MIT graduates would get together and form a country, it ... he drew on a piece of a paper: a tennis ball, a circle, and the number

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  November Scores

  

  To anyone who's been worrying about scores from November tests geting to us in time for EA selection, here's a bit of good news - we got 'em! They'll be loaded into the system tonight. Now stop worrying! ;-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  . It is also important to note that we do not need to have your scores in our hands by the deadline. In fact, we will accept scores from this ... scores on your Part 2. I assure you that we will receive these scores, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  undergraduate experience was cut short by COVID-19, and this was a good way to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  things: Career Fair Senior Gift Senior Ball -------------------------------- Side note: Check out the hilarious Senior Ball Survival Guide, with ... , paid for by the '07 class council! :-) Take this amazing opportunity to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Why no blogs!? I'm busy, ok?

  

  Why no entries lately? Because MIT's Freshman Orientation is in full swing and everybody on campus is crazy busy. With what? Stuff like the East vs. West Water War from yesterday. Photos courtesy of our ever

  • by Snively '11
  • August 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... reading an MIT Admissions blog post by Michael C. '16." Anyway. Around a ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  the MIT Nuclear Reactor. No joke. Reactor safety training is required by ... scores, so the group asked us to do it in our heads, claiming that we ... you to do a pset in a class that's easy for you, like 8.02, vs. a class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  honestly have no preference. If you submit both, we will use whichever scores ... . What score should I get on the TOEFL? A. TOEFL is the one test for which we have minimum scores. They are: 577 (PBT), 233 (CBT) and 90 (i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  same or better test scores, grades, and awards. What no one else has on ... -reported course work form, we don't really care if you got a 750 vs. an 800 on your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  first day of class. MASLab is staffed entirely by students, who give us ... "Robotron", poke at their robot. We are helped in the lab by good staff ... balls to carry to goals with a "ball gobbler" of two wheels at the front

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006